Workshop Schedule
Thursday, December 1, 2011
- 10:00-10:15
- Registration and coffee
- 10:15-10:30
- opening remarks, practical information
Session 1
Atmospheric Dynamics and Modeling
Chair: Kevin Hamilton
10:30-12:30- Erik Lindborg
- A possible explanation of the atmospheric kinetic and potential energy spectra
- Axel Lauer
- Modeling the response of MBL clouds to global warming: The impact of subgrid scale precipitation formation
- Yuya Baba
- Impact of two-moment cloud microphysical scheme in mesoscale convective system
- Yuqing Wang
- Internal Variability of Dynamically Downscaled Tropical Cyclones over the Western North Pacific Using the IPRC Regional Climate Model
- 12:30-14:00
- lunch
Session 2
Climate System and Data Assimilation
Chair Yuya Baba
14:00-15:30- Miho Ishizu
- The oxygen-nitrate relationship in the World Ocean
- Nobumasa Komori
- Development of CFES–LETKF ensemble data assimilation system
- Wataru Ohfuchi
- Numerical Simulations of Effect of Clouds’ Characteristics on Climate: Preliminary Results for Cosmoclimatology
- 15:30-16:00
- coffee
Session 3
Climate Change Issue
Chair: Wataru Ohfuchi
16:00-17:00- Annamalai
- Understanding Asian Summer Monsoon Variability in a Changing Climate
- Kevin Hamilton
- Modeling the Stratospheric QBO Response to Global Warming
Day 2: Friday, December 2, 2011
Session 4
Hawaiian Lee Countercurrent
Chair: Tangdong Qu
9:30-10:30- Hideharu Sasaki
- Influence of local dynamical feedback process on the Hawaiian Lee Countercurrent
- Ali Reda Bel Madani
- Wind-induced baroclinic beta-plumes and the Hawaiian Lee Counter-Current
- 10:30-11:00
- coffee
Session 5
Western Tropical Pacific
Chair: Hideharu Sasaki
11:00-12:30- Takuya Hasegawa
- Study of upper ocean variation in the Bismarck Sea using observation and high-resolution model experiments
- Toru Miyama
- Regional Climate Modeling Study of Wind Variations over Western Pacific Warm Pool before El Nino Onsets
- Tangdong Qu
- Mindanao Current/Undercurrent in OFES
- 12:30 - 14:00
- lunch
Session 6
Kuroshio Extension
Chair: Bunmei Taguchi
14:00-15:30- Masami Nonaka
- Potential predictability of interannual variability in the Kuroshio Extension jet speed in an eddy-resolving OGCM
- Akira Kuwano-Yoshida
- Baiu rainband termination in AFES and CFES
- Bo Qiu
- Effect of Decadal Kuroshio Extension Jet and Eddy Variability on the Modification of North Pacific Intermediate Water
- 15:30 - 16:00
- coffee
Session 7
Decadal Variation
Chair: Bo Qiu
16:00-17:00